From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Easy way to rename files sequentially? Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:40:42 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87wss6q785.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87ejeexgfy.fsf@celephais.home.net> <04fa5efd-411a-46ce-8bea-87c4a9559eb4@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196030749 23323 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2007 22:45:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:45:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 25 23:45:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IwQEM-0003eo-2y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:45:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwQE7-0000nC-7L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:45:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwQDt-0000n7-9f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:45:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IwQDq-0000mu-S5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IwQDq-0000mr-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IwQDq-0004Jb-CA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IwQAp-0005lG-0g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:41:59 +0000 Original-Received: from adsl-76-224-105-8.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net ([76.224.105.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:41:59 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-76-224-105-8.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:41:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-76-224-105-8.dsl.emhril.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dnGwmhWFVBeK98Ew0P/XX5M1DQE= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49520 Archived-At: Xah Lee writes: > See: > > * Rename Files by a Text Pattern > http://xahlee.org/emacs/rename_file_pattern.html > > summary: > Alt+x dired > Alt+x dired-do-rename-regexp > > if this does not satisfy your creating sequencial numbers for file > names... write back more pls and i'll try to help. (or the group) I'm probably blind but I see nothing there about sequential numbering. Then Peters post speaks of adding strings to `columns' I guess what is throwning me is the use of format strings that are not explained to generate the numbers.